The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 7, 1901, Page 1

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. > 1 FIRESIDE COMPANION, he Bee i GRERY ADVERTISING MEDIUM. Do you want eae toc eme fSeariess race De want trade? ‘Read and advertise tn THE BEE! It is true if you see it in THE BEY)! wt BORROW TE WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 1901. = rae ~ — | = a - . é IH DISTRICT HAY | Sagid's ‘attaies of united strength and the most polyglot population, but it | and too patrictic too seek selfish ends, |C., and Rev. Sterling N. Brown, pas-| i A z 5 bas the most cosmopolitan interest in |and who gave to thei t f x I | Itis a beautifully significant tact taivae United States. gave eir country what/tor ofthe Park Temple and of the the thoughtful civilized man that THE AEGRO GONDEWNED. ore bt ates ip hac iisoeh ee It| Theological department of Howard | : ° c 8 z : an tells the youth ofthe country that| University, Washington, D. C. The whereas so lon; of HOME OF ALL OUR PUBLIC MEN. : 3 5 ee ——e | bee aes sean in Mis history of the AN da pea CG there issomething better than selfish- | following letter from Rey. Brown ex- | et on battle-fields only | e Presidents, except George | ness, and summons them with irresist | plains the occurence: = — | when instituting comparisons of na-| Washington, and a!l their cabinet offi. {ble o selfi Edi Press:—For sev q { JoHN W, DOUGLASS CMAIRs| tional progress ae cea ne | cers, all the’ Chief Justices from John eel ar a a eee * ccaoeceia — ds ~ MAN OF. THE | these better and wiser times we meet | Marshall down, and all their associ . ' to this spot on the pied el orale | UNFIT FOR THE BALLOT SAYS ° j here, as friends, comparing the arts|ates in the Supreme Court; all the |I have walked your streets, boarded AYERS. 2 | and ways of pea in the progress of| Vice Presidents since Jefferson, all the | THE BEE AND CHEATHAMINDORSED. | Yur cars, witnessed your attractions, | eis j industrial, educational, and esthetic | Senators and alithe Representatives Biss SoH ee "| attended’ the raat Ocean Grove | sn Arrangements Makes @Specch | 2fOwth. Now indeed peace hath her | Since the Fifth Congress; all the am | ; camp-meetings, all to personal ae Ce s Macfarland’s most Elequent | Victories no less renowned than war.| bassadors and ministers of foreign! 7). south Says Both Are Right. Incendiary | and inspiration. My training in col-} , 4 sadly Applauded—Gen. Geo. d.| PRODUCTIVE OF A COMMON HIsTory. ,2QVe™Ments since 1800, all the great specches Damgerous—Fortune and Pledger | lege, in the Secidary: and pee bat PPS re es Averctetiver the Porejom 4 . «cg Honcr—Otbee Distiaeteled | pease : ; : yofficers of the army and navy, aud yea broarder school of practical combat int Mockery and Declared Unconstitutional : | An individual life, social affairs in | many of our most eminent scientists American life, has givenmea kee us present | which we come together at our sey-| have been residents of the District of Weldon, N. C., August 30th 1901. | sense of the proprieties and ineon |eral homes, to enjoy their respective | Columbia, and have contributed to its) Hon. “. Calvin Chase, lrights ofan American citizen. As ie eS _-——— hospitalities and appointments, initiate | Society, always distinguished for its Editor, Washington Bee, such [ have endeavored for these and cement cosdial relations, so in|fefinement and culture, not only the Washinggton, D. C. more than half dozen summers at the| p10 the Constitutional Convention at these great international affairs where | honor of their presence, but the riches | Dear Sir:—I congratulate THe Bee, Park and Grove to always actas be-| Richmond, Va., September 2, Gen- Cantember «Thiel we meet to compare varied progress, | f their minds. More important still, in the manly manner in which it de-| coming a christian gentleman. jeral Ayers a moss back democrat got whe District people, | the effects must be to stimulate na-|the public men have done their great | fended Recorder H. P. Cheatham in! With all the unreasonable prejudice | th€ floor and as soon as the conven- ; the District people. | tional improvement and beget a com. | deeds and spoken their great words, the Post interview of a week or so ago| and inhuman insults shown my upfor- | ion went into committee of the whole weathe sutiful and the air is / mon aim and history. Holding such | making in large measure the history against the attack made by Col. tunate race it still remains that we are | 10 Consider the report on the pream- g. There arehun-| sentiments and alive with such antici- | Of our country, inthe District of Col) P.edger of Atlanta and Mr. T. Thomas} human, and do have feelings just as | ble and bill of rights, Mr. Ayers was . from all over the] nations, it certainly must be good to|umbia. Simply to recail the names | fortune of New York. Mr. Cheat- | tender ‘and a pride just as manly and | recognized and proceeded to make a he ay and specially from | be here, and let us congratulate one| of men whose biographies are that | ham’s interview was correct and every | as easily wounded as can be found in| S*f"g, speech in favor of the submis~ the Columtia, The center | another that we are here today under | history will give youa true conception conservative man inthe South, both! the bosoms of our brothers in white |sion of the constitution to an abridged € distinguished Com- | such cheering ausjic s. | of the wealth and greatnest of the Dis- White and Colored endorses Mr. | | go and come not as anegroor white | electorate. The speech of the attor- y B. F. Macfarland |” permit me, in behalf of the com-| trict of Columbia, which claims them, |Cheatham’s statement. Mr. Cheat-/man, but as acommon citizen of a| "ey general was especially interesting, ie the prinipal speech, Mr. | mittee of arrangements for tbe Dis-|their speeches, and their actions at) ham is an authority and the people of| reat country. I go under no disguise. | because of the bold manner in which Mactarland ¢ of the most digni-| trict of Columbia, to thank the gentle | = = = - eee | Nor do I carry a placard of racial iden-| #¢ dealt with the race question and ed*me: e United States, an t eloquent and easy yould desire to here. men of the management of the Exposi |uon for their constant attention and hearty co-operation in allofthe ar- rangements for this day. : aire! Director General Buchanan spoke id of the receiving party | in ahappy vien, and referred wittily ner John W. Doug} to social and official affairs of th: 1om was the president | District. Without the District of Board, Henry B.F extin order was Com-| from there during the past century dS: Engineer Com-/this exposition, he said, would not ing H. Beach, ex-Com- | have been possible. it had been due 8. Wight, John | Sdson | to those virtues of civic life and noble and justice Job Bar | manhood that have emanated in and vere the members of! gone out of the District of Columbia f arrangements. The) that made this and all preceding ex exhibit at the exposition | position in ourgrand country a possi most artistically arranged | bility, ‘ —_— } Mr. Buchanan welcomed in genial ; |words in behalf of the exposition management the District officials and citizens. in rererring to Washington once more, he said it represented the TION PARTY. things hoped for and not seen,’’ Mr to the Marine Band Following Mr Buchan. remarks a “Dizie.”’ cheered, MR, MACFARLAND’S ADDRESS | Commissioner | upbuilding ofthe District of Columbia j and was eloquent and entertaining. It | was the principal address of the day | said, in part: W. Douglass: America. ; most direct and effective character is Ja was an ideal|the possession of the people of the ace the preliminary exercises of | District of Columbia. ‘fe President e In the very center of the | has always chosen as Commissioners a large model of a|men whose character and abilities surrounding — this, | Save them the support of their fellow- 1 s of lighthonse lan- | citizens, and the Commissioners and s their piercing beams | Congress haye always welcomed every lle i showering the | expression of the public will. The a 2 g party. Outside | government of the District of Colum- e e formed by the marines | bia is, therefore, admittedly the best f people who listen- {in the United States, because itis a o the strains of the | government bythe best citizens, with th | partisan politics, the professional pol- > District. age resent. Just at the close/lutely eliminated. ihe District of e 1 Mayor Diehle, of Buf- | Columbia desires toexhibit at the Fan- i was heartily greeted | American Exposition its form of gov- ithe gallery, occu- | ernment as its best and most charac- ment officers under | teristic product, which can not be du- { of Mr. W. V. Cox, sat | plicated for honesty and efficiency. It ilarge gathering of Washington ladies, | 1s becoming the most beautiful Capital ie impressive | in the world, and has doubled its pop- rere there was | ulation and wealth under it. feeling expressed to-| apyanToGES AS A RESIDENCE CITY. e present e by the of-| In the celebration, on the r2th of to show him | |ast December, of the centennial anni- | versary of the founding ofthe District sent at the recep-| of Columbia, the speakers at the exec- were: Attorney|utive Mansion and at the Capitol Duvall, W. Riley | showed that the District of Columbia scomb, S. T.| had held its own inthe progress of the aster, W. J. Friz- | nineteenth century. It had not be- iB. Gleason, Miss Ross, | come the ‘commercial emporium ot « M. McKenzie, Mr. | the first order for which George 1, 1. M. Saunders, | Washington hoped any more than it kwood, Miss Lock | had become the home of the national Mr. Niven, F. P.| university of which he dreamed, and WW. Cook, R. H.|for whichthe made a large bequest, J. H. Vermilyea, | Yet it has an economic and commerci- Miss Schmidt, | al development which surprises even Thomas, and Mr, | its own inhabitants with every census, ‘and it has room and special facilities, eception a lunche | without endangering the peculiar ad- Commissioner Mac-| vantages of Washington as a residence indsome resturant in | city, for the large expansion of manu- Chere was present facturing enterprises, while it has be eral Buchanan and wife.| come a university center with twenty . Maj. Symon, U.S: A., | five hundred collegiate students, and sioners, Mr. and/| besides its colleges, possesses those , Miss Edson, Mr. | great mines .or scientific research, the Bulkley, Mrs. Macfar| government libraries and coilections ers of the committee of| with a millon volumes and thousands as well as_ several / of scientific treasurers, which are now ston, to be made more accessible than ever |to the graduate student. | _Byt the distinction of the District of : lock the spacious Tem| Columbia lies im the fact that it is i galleries and auditorium} more than a commercial or a collegi Ni te : overflowing, every seat | ate center—more, even, than a place e ied. Ex-Commissioner | of scientific research. It isthe National vee glass presided. Besides | Capital, the home of the national gov vers and the speakers; | ernment, the official residence of the AT TFMPLF OF MUSIC ger the stage Gen. George | Presideni, his Cabinet, the Supreme layor Diehle, and mem | Court, the Congress, and the ambassa ] ttee of arrangements. | dors and ministers of allthe other S\ass opened the exercises | governments of the world accredited r eech, as follows: |to the United States. 4 Y this great international | begining a hundred years ago, when ang 1 this special believeing in common with | mally the transfer of the seat of gov of the continent, that it| ernment toits borders. Even then it in a closer union of senti-| had that fine society which it has al ‘ stronger bond of friend-| Zays had since, and that noble life, ‘endship which at no distant | full of interest and culture, of bigh ‘be the equivalent in the/ pursuits and great affairs. Columbia and without the influence | definition of faith—‘the substance of} Bhchanan aiso paid a high compliment medley was rendered which embraced The thousands of nearers Mactariand’s ad-| { | dress was devoted tothe history and | and was closely followed by the large | | audience in the Temple of Music. He { This unique government of the Dis- | | trict of Columbia would not have been | continued, and would not have been) successful, had it not been in tact} more responsive to public opinion | than any other in North or South} Self-government of the! of the Treasury Lyman |itican, and the municipal jobber abso- | | ens | | HON. H. B. F. Wd I y MACFARLAND. their best as its own. Each of them is fgimed by some State, possibly as its | proudest boast, butail of them belong | tothe District of Columbia, where they | lived out their greatness in word and in deed. : et The intelligent American, visiting Washington for the first time, sees not only that itis beautiful for situation \and beautiful in itself, with its spien | did avenuesand strevts, its parks and | trees, its noble buildings and hand | some residences, but that itis majes \tic and impressive inits memories and lassociati ns. He sees it peopled with jour leaders in the century whose pro- | gress this Exposition celebrates. In the Executive Mansion, in the Capitol, |! on Pennsylvania avenue, he walks in | the footprints of the greatest men we {have known, and he sees at every | turn reminders of their lives and their work. towering above all similar structures The Washington Monument, | North Carolina regard him as such and he knows the condition of our people inthe South, and he knows well that the colored people are in the South to stay, and both races must be friendly to each other. Such attacks as Mr. Pledgerand Mr. For- tune made are incendiary in their ex= pression, a tendency to continue to stir up strife between the two races. Tue Bue is considered to be one of the ablest papers published in this country and the HERALD endorses your course, we also consider you and Mr. Cheatham our safest leaders. If wehad more Cheathams and Chases the lynch law would be a thing of the past. Long may Tue BgeE live in the hearts of the people. Attacks of that kind made by Mr. Pledger and Mr. Fortune only could be made North of the Mason-Dixies line and ut the expense of death and | destruction to our poor colored peo- lin the world, isa symbol notonly of! ple in the South and such attacks of the life of the city which he fonnd- | ed, in its greatness and simplicity, in its high aspirations, and in its separa |tion from mercenary considerations. We need no Westminster Abbey w hile | we have Washington to preserve tous that which can not be wrought into marble or bronze, the very spirit of the }best that was in our statesmen and heroes, and in performing this high | office it rises in simple granduer above the martsofthe money-makers and the gatherings of the factories. MORE POPULATION THAN SOMESTATES. From the windows of the Washing |ton Monument 500 feet above the ground, and almost in_ the center of | the original District of Columbia, one jean snrvey almostits entire extent | without aglass. It is a small state, |though not so small as Athens or |Rome. It is smalier than any other | political divison of the United States, | although it has more population than |six of the States—Delaware, Idaho, | Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Neva | da, and than any of the Territories. It lis not rich in money, as riches go to | day, though it is not poor, as riches went but yesterday. But it is wealtay |in the common wealth of greatness, in- |tellectual and spiritual, in good gov ernment, good society, outward beau This is, and|ty and inward grace, noble men and cus of the Capital of the| ought to be, and always will be, its | memories, anda glorious history. It es, I can a-sure you, ap| distinctive glory. It had this at its | stands supreme, far above the terrible | waves of materialism, for intellectral occasion, | President John Adams announced for | and spiritual achievement, for high | thinking and fine living, and for those ambitions which cannot be satisfied with sordid gain or sensuous pleasures Its voice sounds above the clamor of. the market places to remind us of men Ithas not} who were too busy to make money, the great and pure fouuder’s life, but | should be stopped for they are no friends to the laboring classes of the colored people. Mr. Fortune can ford to make those attacks in New York but Mr. Pledger cannot afford it in Georgia, North and South Carolina. It seems that whenever good men like | |Mr. Cheatham and yourseif attempt to bring about good relations which | should exist between the two races in the South they are rebuted by these | two gentlemen. We again congratulate you upon your defense of the Recorder and we \bid The Bee welcome in our + idst, jand weregard The Bee as a true ‘friend to the Southern Negroand we |ask youto continue your exchange with the HERALD, While we have the pleasure of being your truest friend, | S. G. Newsome, Editor, Neuse River Herald. WOULD NOT SERVE NEGRO MINISTERS. | Washington Divines Bold They Could Not Dine in Asbury Park Pestaurant. | srom the Asbury Park Daily Press. Two Negro gentleman of culture and high standing, ministers of the gospel and men of collegiate training, recently entered an Asbury Park res- taurant and ordered a meal. In the precence of a reom full ofdi- ners they were subjected to the humil- iation of being told that colored peo- ple were not served there. They said nothing but quietly left theplace. The gentlemen were Rev. Alexander C, Garner, pastor of the Pl ymouthCon- gregational church of Washington, D. | tification. I pay my bills and like ev-| tention of the multitude here gathered and of the good people in the State, | | who believe in justice and fair play to these unlawful and unreasonable in- dignities that will be righted—not so much bylaw as bya public sentiment based upon the golden rule and a gen- eral spirit of true brotherhood such as is taught in the life of Jesus of Naza- reth. STERLING N. BROWN. WHAT NEW YORK CHEFS EAT. Proper Grevillot, who has been con- th nected wit ment 25 yea ieves in the The dinner of Jean Roth, chef at the Hotel Netherland, on the day he was seen, was of boiied beef and spinach, with no other vegeizbles or dessert. Gustave Mouvel, the chef at the Fifth Avenue hotel, was seen while he was at dinner. His meal consisted of a small piece of fresh mackerel, pound cake and claret. Angelo Lamanna, chef at the Long Beach hotel, never eats meat and sel- dom fish, b's sole food being cereals with milk. He weighs over 200 pounds aad is the picture of Lea!th. Pasquale Grand, chef at Sherry’s, is one of the youngest cooks in New York. fe eats but two meals ll eater and be- inest of food. asr and consisting pri ally of soup. He is not a lover of meat and drinks no wine. P. Eeny,chefa been in this cou he Waldorf, who has ry 30 ye . subsists mainl, on onion s ip and beef tea. Chef Eeny is about 50 years old, short and stout and well nourished. Chef Eeny is astonished at the quantity of food, especially of sweet food, eaten by American women. “T can’t remember when I last dined. | Certainly I have not eaten what you | Americans call a square meal since 1 | came to this country many years ago.” Saying this with a laugh and the shrug of the shoulders so characteristic of the Frenchman, Zanophon Kuzmier, chef of the Hotel Savoy, sat back in his | easy chair in his little officeand talked | gastronomy. Chef Kuzmier’s state- | ment is especially remarkable when | his healthy, robust appearance is con- | sidered. “We absorb the food fumes,” he observed. “When one takes andre- tains in his system through the pores roast beef, muttonand all other health and strength giving foods he does not require them in his stomach.” His Retort. Waiter (suavely)—Yes’r, that's the exact amount of your bill; but— er-h’m!—you have forgotten the waiter, sir. Guest (savagely)—Well, I didn’t eat | She waiter, did 1?—Puck. j t as oe Delmonico establish- | | a day, very light, |the subject of slavery. He prefaced ery other sensible man do so for value | this by expressing his friendly feeling | received. |. Nottill yesterday (Monday) have I | been refused any hospitality in this | ‘*Eden spot”’ by the sea. A fellow} | pastor of the same denominacion, the | Rev. Alexander C. Garner, pastor of| Plymouth Congregational church, | | Washington, D. C.,a man of charac-| | ter, refinement, culture and dignified | | appearance, accompained me to Ham- | jilton’s dining room, Mattison avenue, }fordinner. My honored brother was |a little more marked in negro features | {than Iand soit was not difficult to| | place our racial idenity even on this | | “‘darksome seashore.” | The surpr'se awaiting us was the an- | ;Mouncement, ‘‘We can nct feed color- | , ed people in this dinning room.’”’ Can you imagine our chagrin and humili- | ation? The remarks were made in the | Presence of many ladies and gentle- | men atthe tables. Like any self-re- | specting men our whole manhood re- | sented the insult. But what could we do? The insuit had been boldly given |and there wewere. We didthe right | thing—walked politely out as we had jin, without making any bluster or side show, but with wouuded feelings and | | this undertone ofthought: ‘*Is Ameri- | can justice to be forever gone?” We are ministers of the gospel of | {csus and have never been regarded as figiting cocks. Indeed we have strongly advocated the theory that {ja tic and manhood rizhts for the ne- | gro in tuis Country must comethrough, }an enlghted, white America. We have, however, consulted cne of the | best lawyers of this place, looked up | the law and find that we have a clear | case against the proprietor. | for the negro, and declaring that he would do nothing to deprive them of full justice before the law in the pro- tection of their civil rights. “Ifthere is anythingin the history of the conduct of the colored race since the war that reflects upon their capacity to take part in govern- ment,” said Mr. Ayers, “‘that history |has been written by themselves, and rewritten in characters and acts that cannot be misread. “I want to say that our people were not responsible for slavery. Virginia was the first among Southern States to protest against slavery and attempt to put an endtoit. It was originally forced upon us.” Mr. Ayers had the reconstruction act read by the clerk, and continuing, said that in addition to th another act was passed in 1867 to further rivet and fasten, disfranchisement upon the best element of Virginia manhood. He de- clared that the Supreme Court of the United States had never decided that the reconstruction acts were constitu- tional, but had on every occasion in which that question was presented refused to pass an opinion onit. He said that to the conservative party of Virginia afterthe war was largely due the escape Virginia made from the reign of lawlessness and bloodshed |that almost destroyed the property and governments of other Southern States. He said the membership of the con~ stitutional covention of 1865 was made up of men from almost every State in the Union, and had members from Nova Scotia, Irela.d, England; and Canada; that the flower of Virginia | t | This note is written to callthe at-|manhood was disfranchised from occupying seats in the convention or voting for delegetes thereto, and read along list of classes of officers and citizens prohibited from voting by the call for the convention. NEGROES OPPOSED BENEFICIAL . MEAUSURES. “Negroes were instigated to oppose |every measure proposed by the best men of Virginia,’ Mr. Ayers continu- jed with warmth. They were taken from the farms and made beneficiary | tothe Freedman’s Bureau. [ remem- ber well when the citizens of Rich- moad were compelled to keep nightly vigils to protect their loved ones from crime, brought about by the presence j of negro policemen placed in charge | of this order of the city. I remember | well the resolution we all formed here to protect our loved ones or die in the | attempt. “The chivalry of Virginia could not vote, but their desperate determina- \tion and their influence was sufficient |to defeat the two most obnoxious of the povisions of that instrument. “The solid phalanx of the negroes; the bush whackers, jay hawkers, scallawages, and carpet baggers sought by every means in their power to pass those infamous provisions. The white people of Virginia were under the compulsion of Congress or | they never would have voted for it— | those who could vote. “At best the vote upon that con- stitution was a restricted elecorate |And now, when an opportunity is offered us to correct this evil I con- |tend that there is no legal cr moral | responsibility upon us to submit the present constitution to the negroes of Virginia for them to say that the illegal jacts of 1865 to 1869 shall be forever indorsed by the State of Virginia. HAS NOT BENEFITED HIMSFLF | | | “Has the negro shown to-day any | disposition to profit by all what we have done by school and other taxes for his benefit to raise him to an in- telligent exercise of the duties of citi- |zenship? The answer is that three |times he has voted in solid phalanx against any proposition that has been j made to improye the conditions of Virginia by means of a constitutional convention. | “Mr. Ghairman, to correct this | wrong done heretofore, I believe we should incorporate in the organic law a provision that will clarify the poli- ticial atmosphere of this State, and for that purpose I shall vote to submit this constitution to an abridged elec- torate. I would grant to all persons of fair character who understand the duties of government the right to vote, I would not require a poll tax, prop erty, or other educational! qualifica- ton. I would providea board of three to determine on appiicatiou for regis- tration who met these qualifications. “I would have those men selected because of their high and irreproacha- ble character, one of opposite poli Continued on 8th page